Share: In celebration of their annual First Gen Week, Pasadena City College has been hosting a plethora of events in the FYE Pathways Center. These events include a resume workshop, a career panel, and a conversation on financial literacy, all focusing on the perspective of first generation students. Most of the people involved with organizing the events were first generation students themselves. At the panel, they aimed to inspire the first generation students in attendance by sharing their stories and career paths from community college …
Panel: AAPI community is ‘more than a model minority’
Share: The PCC Freeman Center Diversity career panel tackled the Model Minority Myth on Friday by addressing racism towards the AAPI community and urging students to define their own success. Follow:
How to find your career at PCC’s Robert G. Freeman Center
Share: The Robert G. Freeman Center for Career & Completion (Freeman Center) is halfway through its first semester at Pasadena City College (PCC). It provides a comprehensive suite of opportunities for students to explore their career paths, expand their interviewing skills, learn about leadership and build CVs or resumes. Follow:
$300,000 donation reinvents PCC career center
Share: Following its well-coordinated fundraising pitch and low-key two month gestation, the Robert G. Freeman Center for Career and Completion, a newly remodeled and renamed space in the existing IT building near Hill Avenue, opened May 16 as a hub to cultivate students’ academic progress and career growth. The Freeman Center (FC), its informal name, features a large, bright open space with several glass walls. There are small private offices with windows and doors, semi-private seating, rolling whiteboards, and a retractable screen for presentations. The …